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Breaking News: Shooting Reported Inside Alabama Court Building
FoxNews ^ | February 3, 2011 | FoxNews

Posted on 02/03/2011 9:52:40 AM PST by Never on my watch

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: banglist; courtroom; shooting
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To: kiryandil
"An eyewitness says a person on crutches was in court and became belligerent. A Goodwater police officer reportedly responded to the scene and ended up shooting the person. According to the witness, the officer shot the victim a second time after the initial shot brought him to the ground."

Well that changes everything. Now we have bailiffs who can't overpower a guy on crutches without shooting him! (Twice!) I am reminded of the female bailiff in Atlanta who was over powered by a huge defendant. He then went on a killing spree.

41 posted on 02/03/2011 11:46:07 AM PST by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: redgolum
ON CRUTCHES?
So the cops shot a guy on crutches?

And THEN shot him a second time after he was DOWN???

42 posted on 02/03/2011 11:46:14 AM PST by greyfoxx39 ("This administration has turned off America's beacon to the world for freedom and left darkness")
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To: redgolum
So the cops shot a guy on crutches?

TWICE! Well, technically once on crutches and once while bleeding on the floor.

43 posted on 02/03/2011 11:48:05 AM PST by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: Never on my watch
Witnesses said a person on crutches became belligerent towards the judge around 9:40am. An officer responded, ultimately shooting the man. Witnesses said the officer shot the man a second time once he was on the ground.
44 posted on 02/03/2011 11:48:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
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To: redgolum
So the cops shot a guy on crutches?

No, the cop shot the guy on crutches for mouthing-off.

45 posted on 02/03/2011 11:49:00 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Red Badger

Ban crutches!!!


46 posted on 02/03/2011 11:49:37 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: greyfoxx39

An eye witness (what, mother of the shot person?) says this and that.. I’m going to wait to hear from all the eye witnesses and the other evidence first. Don’t want to pull an Obama here..


47 posted on 02/03/2011 11:50:46 AM PST by Paradox (Palin, the female Rush. I wish she would stay that way.)
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To: Labyrinthos
No, the cop shot the guy on crutches for mouthing-off.

Clearly self defense.

48 posted on 02/03/2011 11:50:58 AM PST by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: greyfoxx39
And THEN shot him a second time after he was DOWN???

What are you whining about?

The guy on crutches was lucky he didn't bring a seeing-eye dog...

;-)


49 posted on 02/03/2011 11:58:46 AM PST by kiryandil
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To: Hoodat

Auburn University.


50 posted on 02/03/2011 11:59:21 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("And if you disagree with me, you are worse than Hitler." Greg Gutfeld)
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To: Never on my watch

The violence is spreading westward from Egypt!


51 posted on 02/03/2011 12:01:25 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Never on my watch

A preliminary investigation of a shooting at Goodwater City Hall indicates that at approximately 9:39 a.m. today, a defendant attacked the Municipal Court judge and attempted to forcibly obtain a firearm when he was shot by a Goodwater police officer who was providing courtroom security, according to a Department of Public Safety press release.

from http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/02/alabama_bureau_of_investigatio_4.html


52 posted on 02/03/2011 12:03:21 PM PST by CaroleL
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To: SgtHooper

I am going to pass on a little knowledge I learned as a young man. I was just out of the Army 1970 a little wild anyway I had to go to court and I showed some disrespect for the government and their judges, I got 11 months and 29 days to think it over never did it again!


53 posted on 02/03/2011 12:05:06 PM PST by Lees Swrd ("Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well")
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To: Never on my watch

A white person with white skin, and a white hat, who drove a white SUV is the likely suspect here.


54 posted on 02/03/2011 12:05:08 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: kiryandil
The guy on crutches was lucky he didn't bring a seeing-eye dog...

The dog would have been shot THREE times!

55 posted on 02/03/2011 1:12:34 PM PST by greyfoxx39 ("This administration has turned off America's beacon to the world for freedom and left darkness")
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To: redgolum

ON CRUTCHES?

So the cops shot a guy on crutches?


According to witnesses the cop shot him twice. After the first shot he was taken to the floor; then the cop shot him again. Witnesses felt the guy could have been controlled without deadly force.

If the cop used excessive force right in front of a judge, will he get away with it?


56 posted on 02/03/2011 2:14:36 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: CholeraJoe
Auburn

Oh, I thought you said she went to college.

57 posted on 02/03/2011 2:33:13 PM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Hoodat; Alas Babylon!
Oh, I thought you said she went to college.

You're outnumbered and you've stepped into a minefield. AB is a Professor at Auburn. Since you appear to be misinformed, I won't bore you with the number of astronauts, Captains of Industry, Military flag officers, scientists or engineers Auburn has produced.

58 posted on 02/03/2011 3:06:56 PM PST by CholeraJoe ("And if you disagree with me, you are worse than Hitler." Greg Gutfeld)
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To: CaroleL; Never on my watch
"attempted to forcibly obtain a firearm"

That means he tried to grab a gun from the officer or a bailiff.

That will get you shot - particularly after the Brian Nichols case, in which Judge Rowland Barnes and his court reporter and bailiff were killed while court was in session. His calendar clerk and secretary were pistol-whipped and badly injured. I knew Judge Barnes and know his calendar clerk quite well. She is crippled and can't even go out of her house without having a panic attack.

NOMW, the Fulton Cty sheriff's department is going to pay out big judgments for violating their own protocol. Three deputies left the video monitoring equipment in the jail to go get breakfast, leaving a 60 year old female deputy to escort Nichols to court. This after Judge Barnes had told the sheriff's office that Nichols was dangerous -- he had threatened court personnel and had been caught with a shank -- and the judge had asked for special protection. He took her gun and the rest all followed.

Fulton is dysfunctional, but I imagine courtroom officials are taking no chances these days.

59 posted on 02/03/2011 3:25:44 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: Never on my watch
I am reminded of the female bailiff in Atlanta who was over powered by a huge defendant. He then went on a killing spree.

Too bad so sad. Regrettable collateral damage but at least her equal opportunity employment rights were protected.

60 posted on 02/03/2011 3:57:42 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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